CAR OVER BANK
ACCIDENT\ AT LOWER HUTT
] The driver of a motor-ear in Lower i Hutt was fortunate in being abl© to maintain the equilibrium of the vehicle when it plunged over a bank, about 6.30 last evening. The car came from Victoria Street, and. apparently the driver • failed to notice, another car approaching off the bridge and. in order to avoid a" collision accelerated to such, an extent that he could not make the- turn on to the bridge. His car mounted the' footpath, broke through a stout jarrah protective fence on the edge of the ramped bridge approach, pliingcd down the bank—about fifteen; feet higli—and pro-1 cceded right over a'vacant plot of land j before-stopping against the fence- on, the opposite side. Whatever damage, was done to the car, it', was still .in running order and was, driven out into I Marsden Street. I The traffic island at this point -was I designed with n, view to giving drivers j of vehicles from Victoria Street time to observe traffic coining off the bridge. I
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 14
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176CAR OVER BANK Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 14
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